I think it would help to donate directly to the upstream projects. Not
Canonical so much, but Speakup or Gnome Accessibility, or even ask Willie
(for Orca) or Kurt (for Speakup) if they would add or work on a feature
for a certain amount of money. Pay or donate to the coders that make the
Hi,
Is there a site, or some way to donate to Ubuntu in such a way that the
donated funds will go towards accessibility specifically? I would like
to be able to donate to projects like Orca and speech-dispatcher, but as
far as I know, right now that would meen donating to Oracle. This, I
will
Hi, Storm. Personally, I think you should save your money for beer, and
continue contributing as you have - with your time.
What we really need is at least another full time person at Canonical
working full-time on accessibility, and of course, I vote for Willie. Short
of that, perhaps we can
Hi,
I thought time and code donations would be good enough too, but look
what happened to Sun. Worse yet, look what it got replaced with and the
havoc it has caused. I can't donate much to the cause, maybe $5 or $10 a
month, but something has to be done. We can't take the chance that
something
I think the idea is good. I would be willing to donate although I would like to
be able to decide the amount each time.
Who should set this up, and where would the money go exactly? Straight to
Canonical, somewhere else?
On Feb 11, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Storm Dragon wrote:
That's not a bad idea,
Hi,
I would assume that it would go straight to Ubuntu. The one-time payment
option would allow you to pick your amount each time it was used. I
guess someone in Canonical's accounting department would have to set it
up because they would have to keep track of the funds.
Storm
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Well maybe there could be an open source accessibility charity started
that hold the funds. This could be used to help fund projects that are
seen to better accessibility in the open source community.
I use my project as an example if there was a strong opinion around the
community that a large
